Stephen4Louise
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Why not have a marker in a hold that can be set to "testing"

When in testing mode - Anyone playing the hold can see additional details about a room such as all eye paths, blast radius for chained explosions, whether a room is marked as scorable and anything else that may be useful during testing.

Architects should be able to make a decision about whether their hold should be in test mode or not before uploading to the architecture forum.

Also, an additional option in the editor that allows an architect to mark a room as tested might be useful. If I room is changed after being marked, the mark should be removed. Architects should have a way to list all untested rooms in their hold.
Before uploading a hold to the forum there should be a warning if their are any unmarked rooms in the hold. It's probably best to allow people to ignore the warning.

While people can't be forced to have their holds tested, giving more options to aid the process can only help.

Steve

NiroZ
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the only problem with a testing mode is that it can blindside people to tedious rooms, as they can see the eyes, spiders, bombs etc, so tricky solutions can become mind boggleingly easy(just imagine a room full of eyes, with spiders placed in nooks).
Perhaps if we hid it under an 'advanced' tab, or made it toggleable.

But other than that, i agree, you suggestions would make testing alot easier.

Stephen4Louise
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NiroZ wrote:
Perhaps if we hid it under an 'advanced' tab, or made it toggleable.

Yeah, I think it will work best if it is an option in the hold edit screen. New holds should default the testing option off, but it can be selected to be on by architects.

Dolan42
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Stephen4Louise wrote:
Also, an additional option in the editor that allows an architect to mark a room as tested might be useful. If I room is changed after being marked, the mark should be removed. Architects should have a way to list all untested rooms in their hold.
Before uploading a hold to the forum there should be a warning if their are any unmarked rooms in the hold. It's probably best to allow people to ignore the warning.

The only way to re-mark the box should be for the architect to conquer the room.

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